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Post by weltschmerz on Oct 28, 2015 18:23:47 GMT -5
He's crying victimhood before it even starts.
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Post by weltschmerz on Oct 28, 2015 18:29:05 GMT -5
Yes, Trump is a gift from the Almighty Himself!
Idiots.
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Post by Value Buy on Oct 29, 2015 8:10:09 GMT -5
Trump is starting to sound like a loser. Donald Trump: CNBC debate will be 'unfair'Donald Trump is already convinced the CNBC GOP primary debate on Wednesday night will be stacked against him. Despite his long history with CNBC, having been featured in regular segments and flattering specials such as "CNBC Titans" and "Billionaire Inside," Trump told POLITICO and said in two tweets that he thinks the debate would not be fair. "No, I don't expect the debate to be fair," Trump told POLITICO on Monday. "After a great evening and packed auditorium in Iowa, I am now in Colorado looking forward to what I am sure will be a very unfair debate!" Trump tweeted on Wednesday morning, followed by ".@cnbc continues to report fictious poll numbers. Number one, based on every statistic, is Trump (by a wide margin). They just can't say it!" For their part, moderators Carl Quintanilla, Becky Quick and John Harwood have all pledged to be fair and give equal time to all the candidates. Donald Trump: CNBC debate will be 'unfair' For their part, moderators Carl Quintanilla, Becky Quick and John Harwood have all pledged to be fair and give equal time to all the candidates.
By everyone's account, they failed miserably in this pledge. Unless they meant to drag all the candidates into the gutter on an equal basis. I always considered John Harwood to be a fair and honest reporter and interviewer. He destroyed an entire career last night. As far as Trump's statement, I guess he was correct again.
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Post by Value Buy on Oct 29, 2015 8:12:24 GMT -5
He's crying victimhood before it even starts. In hindsight after the debate, he nailed it. It was not about "victimhood". He was asked a question and gave a response, and even said he was looking forward to it.
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Post by Tennesseer on Oct 29, 2015 8:32:56 GMT -5
Trump is starting to sound like a loser. Donald Trump: CNBC debate will be 'unfair'Donald Trump is already convinced the CNBC GOP primary debate on Wednesday night will be stacked against him. Despite his long history with CNBC, having been featured in regular segments and flattering specials such as "CNBC Titans" and "Billionaire Inside," Trump told POLITICO and said in two tweets that he thinks the debate would not be fair. "No, I don't expect the debate to be fair," Trump told POLITICO on Monday. "After a great evening and packed auditorium in Iowa, I am now in Colorado looking forward to what I am sure will be a very unfair debate!" Trump tweeted on Wednesday morning, followed by ".@cnbc continues to report fictious poll numbers. Number one, based on every statistic, is Trump (by a wide margin). They just can't say it!" For their part, moderators Carl Quintanilla, Becky Quick and John Harwood have all pledged to be fair and give equal time to all the candidates. Donald Trump: CNBC debate will be 'unfair' For their part, moderators Carl Quintanilla, Becky Quick and John Harwood have all pledged to be fair and give equal time to all the candidates.
By everyone's account, they failed miserably in this pledge. Unless they meant to drag all the candidates into the gutter on an equal basis. I always considered John Harwood to be a fair and honest reporter and interviewer. He destroyed an entire career last night. As far as Trump's statement, I guess he was correct again. He could have proved them wrong by standing out. He didn't. Not everthing is ever going to go the way one would like. He should have given his prediction a positive spin.
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Post by Value Buy on Oct 29, 2015 8:39:25 GMT -5
He could have proved them wrong by standing out. He didn't. Not everthing is ever going to go the way one would like. He should have given his prediction a positive spin.
And lie when he knows what he is going to face? Your asking him to be politically correct. This is part of his Presidential run. End the political correctness and get us out of this mess
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Post by AgeOfEnlightenmentSCP on Oct 31, 2015 16:06:50 GMT -5
Yes, Trump is a gift from the Almighty Himself!
Idiots.
The sign looks photoshopped? Is this real?
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Post by AgeOfEnlightenmentSCP on Oct 31, 2015 16:19:14 GMT -5
To be fair, there are a lot of nominal "christians" who don't know they're not the real deal. The disconnect between Trump and evangelical voters is that evangelicals KNOW they have asked God for forgiveness, whereas a lot of mainline Christian denominations you're a (in Trump's case) Presbyterian, Lutheran, Methodist, or whatever because you were raised that way and you go to church on Christmas and Easter. Then again, I keep thinking Trump's not going to make it once GOP primary voters start substantively considering whether or not he's authentically anything-- and I am repeatedly proven wrong. He got caught in a flat out lie during the debate-- biased though the moderator may have been. However, that got lost in the shuffle-- thanks in large part to the dip shit liberal moderators being the topic of almost all post debate discussion. As it turns out, the Iowa poll showing Carson leading was a Club For Growth Action phony poll. It didn't match the real CBS polling-- it was a poll of 574 people bought and paid for by an anti-Trump PAC. The reality (and this is me, in case anyone is wondering): Anyway-- the reality is, that Trump has almost insurmountable double-digit leads in ALL early primary states, and a massive, growing lead nationally. As of this moment, I would say that Trump is the nominee barring some earth-shattering event.
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Post by dondub on Oct 31, 2015 16:41:26 GMT -5
You would think an American car would help deliver the message that the owner of that vehicle is weird.
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Post by Tennesseer on Oct 31, 2015 21:20:13 GMT -5
Yes, Trump is a gift from the Almighty Himself!
Idiots.
The sign looks photoshopped? Is this real? You don't remember posting a picture of what you think is a Photoshopped picture, do you. Page 8 of this thread, reply#234. Same woman, different location at the rally.
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Post by mmhmm on Oct 31, 2015 21:30:34 GMT -5
Umm, if you look at that picture closely, there's at least one limb that doesn't seem to have a person attached to it. I noticed it the last time this picture was posted. Look at the gall in front wearing the pink baseball cap with Trump on it. Look at the arm coming over her left shoulder. To whom, pray tell, does that arm belong?
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Post by weltschmerz on Oct 31, 2015 21:34:00 GMT -5
Cruz? Wait until the birthers get their claws into HIM! He wasn't even born in the USA.
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Post by Tennesseer on Oct 31, 2015 21:42:43 GMT -5
Umm, if you look at that picture closely, there's at least one limb that doesn't seem to have a person attached to it. I noticed it the last time this picture was posted. Look at the gall in front wearing the pink baseball cap with Trump on it. Look at the arm coming over her left shoulder. To whom, pray tell, does that arm belong? . But we know the Trump/Jesus poster is real because paul posted a picture of it last August: Make America Great Again is the new hope and change. I think you're either on the Trump Train, or you're in front of it. I'm not the best of political prognosticators as we all know- no one knows better than me. But I am increasingly at a loss for coming up with a scenario where Donald Trump does not walk away with the GOP nomination. SWEET HOME ALABAMA- TRUMP FILLS 42,000 SEAT STADIUMwww.wnd.com/2015/08/biggest-event-yet-massive-crowd-goes-wild-for-trump/
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Post by weltschmerz on Oct 31, 2015 21:47:05 GMT -5
If Paul posted it, it's real. If I posted the same woman with the same sign, it's fake. Don't you know anything?
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Post by mmhmm on Oct 31, 2015 21:54:25 GMT -5
If Paul posted it, it's real. If I posted the same woman with the same sign, it's fake. Don't you know anything?
Real, me arse! Arms don't come without people. The lady with the sign and her escort have been pasted into the picture of the crowd. Look to the left (our right) of said sign-holder. There's a whole gaggle of fingers holding all manner of electronics and not enough people to be responsible for 'em.
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Post by weltschmerz on Oct 31, 2015 22:27:05 GMT -5
What I meant was Paul posted the picture as something real way back in August. When I posted the same woman with the same sign, he had the gall to suggest it's photoshopped.
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Post by mmhmm on Oct 31, 2015 22:29:22 GMT -5
What I meant was Paul posted the picture as something real way back in August. When I posted the same woman with the same sign, he had the gall to suggest it's photoshopped. I remember when Paul posted it. That's when I first noted the homeless arm. I didn't recall his having suggested your post was photoshopped. It's pretty darned obvious it's this post that's photoshopped. If I'd done that photoshopping job, I'd still be hiding, steeped in shame!
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Post by Tennesseer on Oct 31, 2015 22:43:38 GMT -5
In the NY Daily News link I provided in reply #1012, is a full picture of the one in question: Notice the 'unattached' arm is the right arm. Now look at the woman holding the placard in that picture and then look at the same woman with the placard in the other picture as she and her partner are somewhere else with the placard (use reply #1016). She has a pink logo on her tee-shirt. But looking again at the photo with trump and the woman with the placard, there seems to be someone in between the woman with the placard and the woman with the pink cap. And the shirt seems to have a long(ish) brown logo on it. Plus the distance between the woman with the placard and the woman with the pink hat seems to be greater than if they were all smashed up against each other. So the unattached arm may belong to a person whose head is not in the picture caught between the two women. And the man with the cellphone camera may be blocking the head too. The woman holding the placard and her partner seem to be part of the picture because the flash of the camera taking the picture has caused the placard to cast a shade on the partner's shoulders.
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Post by Tennesseer on Oct 31, 2015 22:46:46 GMT -5
What I meant was Paul posted the picture as something real way back in August. When I posted the same woman with the same sign, he had the gall to suggest it's photoshopped. I remember when Paul posted it. That's when I first noted the homeless arm. I didn't recall his having suggested your post was photoshopped. It's pretty darned obvious it's this post that's photoshopped. If I'd done that photoshopping job, I'd still be hiding, steeped in shame! Paul is questioning the authenticity of the sign/poster the woman is holding.
Yes, Trump is a gift from the Almighty Himself!
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The sign looks photoshopped? Is this real?
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Post by mmhmm on Oct 31, 2015 23:56:22 GMT -5
<blink> There's no inkling of photoshopping in the freaking sign! It's the person holding the sign and her escort who have been placed into a picture in which they don't belong. I don't see how Paul could have thought the sign was photoshopped when the pasting is so damned obvious! Weird. I think I need to go to bed. This whole idea has totally confused me!
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Post by Value Buy on Nov 1, 2015 5:15:08 GMT -5
You would think an American car would help deliver the message that the owner of that vehicle is weird. I have to agree. I would expect a Mustang convertible with a V-8 probably fire engine red, maybe from the late sixties, early seventies. Fast sleek A winner Or maybe a 2015 Camero convertible. Definitely not what is in the picture.
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Post by AgeOfEnlightenmentSCP on Nov 1, 2015 9:21:43 GMT -5
What I meant was Paul posted the picture as something real way back in August. When I posted the same woman with the same sign, he had the gall to suggest it's photoshopped. I remember when Paul posted it. That's when I first noted the homeless arm. I didn't recall his having suggested your post was photoshopped. It's pretty darned obvious it's this post that's photoshopped. If I'd done that photoshopping job, I'd still be hiding, steeped in shame! You people really just cannot take a joke.
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Post by AgeOfEnlightenmentSCP on Nov 1, 2015 9:23:14 GMT -5
You would think an American car would help deliver the message that the owner of that vehicle is weird. 1. It's not my car. 2. It's vinyl wrap.
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Post by AgeOfEnlightenmentSCP on Nov 1, 2015 9:28:13 GMT -5
"If I lose Iowa. I'll never speak to you people again!" He's having quite the trumper tantrum. Reminds me of a petulant four year old. Did you even listen to his speech? He was having a blast with the audience. It was all in good fun. He was making fun of everything. Te cable news outlets wondered how Trump would publicly handle the fall in the polls. Trump handled it with making fun of the entire situation with a little NYC humor. He was winning hearts and minds of the public. It's all part of what I now believe to be a superstitious belief that there will be a "campaign-ending gaffe". As a result of their strong belief in their superstition, they are constantly on the lookout for the mystical gaffe-- it will not happen. One of the beautiful things Trump has done is not merely destroying "political correctness", but he has gone off script. When the media and the party hacks decide you have made the "career ending gaffe", you are to fold, clean up your mess, and go home with your tail between your legs. Trump has steadfastly refused to even acknowledge he's made any gaffes-- it's driving them CRAZY.
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Post by Shooby on Nov 1, 2015 11:29:08 GMT -5
Who cares if the sign is real or not? Voters are allowed to express themselves even in ways you might not like.
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Post by billisonboard on Nov 1, 2015 11:45:27 GMT -5
Who cares if the sign is real or not? Voters are allowed to express themselves even in ways you might not like. Damn straight. If a voter wishes to create a photoshopped sign, insert it into a photoshopped picture of a candidate's rally, and then use it to ridicule people who support that candidate they have that right as 'mericans.
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Post by dondub on Nov 1, 2015 11:46:50 GMT -5
1. It's not my car. 2. It's vinyl wrap.
1. You're not that weird. 2. So no permanent conviction. 3. it's still not an American car.
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Post by Shooby on Nov 1, 2015 11:51:31 GMT -5
Who cares if the sign is real or not? Voters are allowed to express themselves even in ways you might not like. Damn straight. If a voter wishes to create a photoshopped sign, insert it into a photoshopped picture of a candidate's rally, and then use it to ridicule people who support that candidate they have that right as 'mericans. I couldnt care less whether its real or not.
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Post by billisonboard on Nov 1, 2015 11:54:38 GMT -5
Damn straight. If a voter wishes to create a photoshopped sign, insert it into a photoshopped picture of a candidate's rally, and then use it to ridicule people who support that candidate they have that right as 'mericans. I couldnt care less whether its real or not. Looks like you had plenty of left over Snickers.
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